• @[email protected]
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    73 months ago

    I wonder how they stabilised the video.

    Rotate the video at a constant rate about a point until the rocket hits turbulence/has a change of direction and then repeat?

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      3 months ago

      It’s a standard feature in nearly all common video editors (i.e. DaVinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere).

      Usually, stabilization goes over all video frames and tries to find image transformations (rotation + translation + zoom) that make a frame match as closely as possible with the previous frame. That’s an oversimplified explanation, but from a user point-of-view, these tools are mature enough to be applied with just a few clicks.

      This video is definitely the result of that, as, whoever did it, didn’t even bother to insert a cut when the feed switches between left side and right side camera, thus making the stabilization spazz out momentarily.

      • Turun
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        53 months ago

        Where do you see the camera switch side? The fin on which the camera is mounted moves every now and then, but I think we only ever see the perspective of one camera.

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          33 months ago

          You’re right, it doesn’t. I could have sworn I saw the opposite fin for a few seconds yesterday, but I must have been mistaken.

    • SanguinePar
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      123 months ago

      There used to be a great subreddit for image stabilisations, always enjoyed seeing stuff from there and people would sometimes go into detail about the tools and techniques they used .

      There probably still is, but there used to be too.

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      63 months ago

      Most advanced video compositors/editors have stabilization features. What you do is you give the program a couple of reference points that you know aren’t moving, and the program will automatically track those points over time